the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (49) 425 

 Megischyrus decempunctatus. 



IscJiyrus 10-punctatus, Guer. R. Z. 1841, 154. 



, Lac. Erot. 99. 



Bolivia, Guarayos. 



Megischyi'us semitinctus.* 



Ischyrus semitinctus^ Er. Arch. f. Nat. xiii. 180 (1847). 

 Peru. 



Megischyrus Knochii. 



Ischyrus Knochii, Lac. Erot. 100. 

 Bolivia. 



Megischyrus discipennis. 



Ischyrus discipennis, Lac. Erot. 101. 



Megischyrus , Crotch, Cist. Eat. 143. 



Mexico, Nicaragua (Janson). 



Megischyrus sicarius. 



Ischyrus sicarius, Lac. Erot. 101. 



2)erizonatits, Lac. Erot. 103. 



Brazil (?), Columbia. 



The variety perizonatus has the thorax ferruginous witli five 

 black spots; and I have a variety in which the thoi^ax has a 

 central black vitta and a black dot on each side. 



Megischyrus zonalis. 



Ischyrus zonalis, Lac. Erot. 102. 



"Var. lineolatns : elytris plaga nigra lineola rubra continente. 



Bolivia, Guarayos, Amazons (Bates). 



Megischyrus circumscriptus. 



Erotylus circumscriptus, Bup. Erot. 41. 



Ischyrus , Lac. Erot. 102. 



Brazil. 



This is possibly an opaque form of M. zonalis. 



Megischyrus lineatus. 



Ischyrus lineatus, Lac. Erot. 104. 



grammistes, Lac. Erot. 104. 



Rio Janeiro, Goyaz. 



I cannot see that M. grammistes differs essentially from M. 

 lineatus, no two specimens of the latter are precisely alike. 



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